Basically Latino eggnog. Creamy with strong hints of coconut and cinnamon. This is mostly a season drink for Christmas and New Years but is sold all year in Puerto Rico. Also similar to rompope in other parts of Latin America. It is very sweet. We bought this in the duty free at the airport in San Juan this July on a trip to visit family, we then put it in the liqour cabinet until today's snow day.
I didn't consider it until now, but maybe it had gone bad or needed refrigeration even thought it hadn't been opened. Well, we are drinking it anyways. We did have to use a strainer to keep out some creamy chunks, they may be the result of sitting around for months but we really don't know. I guess there is a certain risk in the uncertainty of not knowing if it has gone bad, but there is no expiration date on the bottle.
Before opening we put it in the refrigerator a few hours and are enjoying it over ice. I'm having a homemade peppermint whoopie pie with it. My companion is having it on ice in a martini glass with Trader Joe's Sugar, Chocolate, & Coffee Bean Grinder dust on the rim. She says it's "great!"
Made by Alemany. The ingredients list coconut, milk, vanilla, cinnamon, brandy, and "finest rum of Puerto Rico." Thinner than traditional eggnog, maybe even thinner than Baileys. 8.2%, A+
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